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It's not a necessity for for FOSS users...

...to concern themselves with this constant stream of mass virus infections. It never is.

I learned computers using MS. All the way back to early DOS. Microsoft is not the only player anymore.

What forces people in the business away from MS is the constant virus attacks and their success in bringing down computers.

It amuses me how people somehow feel that by taking magic pills, (AV and Critical Updates, installing Anti-Spyware, etc.) that they are somehow protected.

And what's especially amusing is how posters (who have never used linux), stand on a box and proclaim how it is on an equal par with Windows and will someday face the same tsunami of virus infections Windows does because of market share. Not a chance, It will never happen. I just wish they would try it for a while before posting.

Do I worry about virus infections? No.
Do I buy AV programs? NO.
Do I worry about spyware? No.
Do I miss MS Apps? No.

If you want to try LInux, go to LinuxMint.com and download the Linux Mint 7 .iso file.

Windows does not natively burn .iso files, so get the free program Active Iso burner 1.1 and install it.

Burn the .iso file to the disk at 1x speed to account for any irregularities with the CD Drives.

Insert the disk in the drive and reboot the computer. Linux will come up completely in memory and will not install anything on your hard drive.

You can then try it out and see what all the fuss is about without affecting your computer. When you turn the computer off and remove the disk, everything disappears.

If you want to start installing it, you click the "install" icon.

If you wnat dual boot, you select the manual mode, edit the Windows partition, reduce it in size. Then, create 2 new partitions, the first with mount point "/" which is root. The second partition would be "Swap" for the swap file.

Typically, if your hard drive is now 100 GB for Windows, You can reduce the Windows partition to 60 GB. and create a new 20 GB for the main Linux partition and 20 GB for the Linux Swap partition.

Select the "ext4" option for formatting. It's an improvement over "Ext3" and gives faster access.

I have a new Acer 1 Netbook that came with XP.
I installed Linux Mint 7 and EEEbuntu using the above methods (only with a 160 GB HDD). It's now a triple boot.

Posted by: joe.smetona@...   Posted on: 05/31/09  (Edited: 05/31/2009 @ 06:36) You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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